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Monday, December 8, 1986AThe Battalion/Page 7 World and Nation epublican governors meeting o discuss Iranian arms deals “ARSIPPANY, NJ. (AP) — Re- Iblican governors, the big winners Ithe 1986 election, kicked off a ree-day meeting Sunday, but their rent success was tempered by the Jin-Contra disclosures shaking the lagan administration. everybody is waiting for the !ier shoe to drop,” said Michelle kvis, executive director of the Re- iblican Governors Association. lEight newly elected governors Id 14 incumbents plan to attend : conference with an agenda tilted iavily toward politics. IThey also are scheduled for a Wd session with former President chard M. Nixon. The subject was reign policy, although memories Watergate were being stirred by troubles of the Reagan adminis- Jition. (in the 1986 elections, Republicans eked up eight governorships to |ing their total to 24 when all the 'chief executives take office. lOffering an assessment after the GOP lost eight Senate seats and saw the Democrats regain control of the [chamber, Republican Chairman Frank F. Fahrenkopf Jr. noted a “re sounding Republican success in gov ernors’ races.” ^He said the GOP gains “will pro vide a significant boost to Republi- efforts toward fair and honest ^districting and reapportionment dti the next decade.” Among the governors-elect plan ning to attend was Guy Hunt, the first Republican to be elected gover nor of Alabama in this century. Other governors-elect expected to attend were Evan Meecham of Ari zona, Mike Hayden of Kansas, John R. McKernan Jr. of Maine, Kay Orr of Nebraska, Gary Carruthers of New Mexico, George Mickelson of South Dakota and Tommy Thomp son of Wisconsin. Sunday’s agenda was strictly social with formal sessions Monday to fea ture by two political discussions. Political consultants Charles Black, Roger Ailes and Edward Roll ins were to discuss the impact of the 1986 election. Rollins was manager of President Reagan’s 1984 re-elec tion campaign. Black is running Rep. Jack Kemp’s exploration of a possible 1988 candidacy, and Ailes is a veteran media consultant. Later in the day, Fahrenkopf was to join pollsters Lance Tarrance, Robert Teeter and Louis Harris to discuss the elections and the future of the GOP. Davis said the political impact of the disclosures of secret arms sales to Iran and the channeling of money to the Contra forces in Central Amer ica is “something the governors will be talking about constantly.” She added that “the Teeters of the world will be telling us how this im pacts us for the next two-year elec tion cycle.” Two national polls taken since the disclosures said Reagan’s approval rating had dropped — in one survey by 21 points — and that a majority of people believed they weren’t getting the full truth about the affair. In addition to the political talk, the Republicans will hear panel dis cussions on drugs, America in the 1990s and education. 2 build Statue of Liberty as 17-story balloon replica JEWETT CITY, Conn. (AP) — Two self-taught balloon makers have learned the high price of Liberty, devoting their savings and hundreds of hours of labor to build a 17-story balloon that is a flying replica of the Statue of Liberty. Gerard Lefevre, 26, designed the hot-air balloon without bene fit of engineering background or college degree. He and his brother Mark, 28, sewed “Free Lady” out of 2,200 yards of green nylon and 12 miles of thread in a rented three-car garage. Tom Hamilton, editor of Bal loon Life magazine, notes that most of the special-shape balloons in the world are designed by engi neers and factory-made. “With the Lefevre brothers, it’s very interesting that they did it themselves and they did it with out the great expertise others have,” Hamilton said from Sacra mento, Calif. Gerard, who took up balloon ing in high school, designed and built four standard hot-air bal loons before hitting upon his first idea for a specially-shaped pro ject — a hammer. For the Statue of Liberty, he had to use his imagination to solve several problems. To keep the lady’s torch held high and her arm upright, he put 300 cubic feet of helium in the flame to supplement the hot air inflating the rest of the statue. He declined to disclose how he got the spikes in the crown to stand at the correct angle; he’s seeking a patent for the tech nique. Death rate for cancer decreases WASHINGTON (AP) — The death rate from cancer is decreas ing for Americans under age 55 despite a slow increase in the inci dence of the disease in this age group, reports the National Can cer Institute. The agency, in its annual statis tics review to be issued Monday, | attributes much of the 7 percent decline in the death rate for the Jl [group from 1975 to 1984 to ad- 1 vances in cancer treatment. Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, direc tor of the institute, said the death rate drop from 38.2 per 100,000 population to 35.7 per 100,000 is evident for every age group un der 55. About 24 percent of all v f newly diagnosed cancers occur in ™ these age groups. At the same time, the incidence of cancer among the under-55 population increased by two- tenths of 1 percent annually dur ing the 1975-1984 period, with the incidence rate reported at 99.8 per 100,000 in 1984, DeVita said. DeVita, who was to present the report at a meeting of the Na- "i; tional Cancer Advisory Board in ^ New York City, said in a statement that another measure of treatment success is survival rates, which also are going up. “People under 55 have a higher overall five-year relative survival rate for cancer than older patients, indicating that we’re being particularly success ful in treating these patients,” he said. The institute said the latest jdata on cancer incidence and [ deaths are now available through 1984, and survival statistics are [available through 1983. The report said the five-year [survival rate for the entire pop ulation, regardless of age and other factors, was almost 49 per cent. 45-minute ceremony marks anniversary of Pearl Harbor PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Four F4 Phantom jets in the sym- bolic missing man formation screamed overhead Sunday, ending a minute of silence on the 45th anni versary of the Japanese attack that brought the nation into World War II. Top military officers, representa tives of veterans’ and patriotic groups and local dignitaries gath ered on the USS Arizona Memorial for a 45-minute ceremony to observe the anniversary of the sneak attack. One by one, representatives of the five military services and more than a dozen civilian groups pulled indi vidual blossoms from floral wreaths and dropped them through the me morial’s well onto the harbor’s still water. The tribute to the 2,403 Ameri cans killed in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations on the island of Oahu included a warning that the United States must never again allow itself to be caught off-guard. Vice Adm. Huntington Hardisty, deputy commander of the U.S. Pa cific Fleet, said, “With all the keen vi sion imparted by hindsight, we may rightly marvel at the complacency we showed then in a world aflame with war and with a deteriorating diplomatic situation. “We consistently underestimated the potential enemy’s willingness and ability to do us harm.” Soviet military doctrine relies on getting “a quick decisive blow struck before the adversary can fully collect his forces or even his thoughts,” Hardisty said. “It is not a new idea, as this memo rial attests,” he said. “Our Pacific strategy of ready forward-deployed forces demonstrates that we will not be caught off guard.” On that Sunday morning 45 years ago, more than 100 Japanese planes were launched from six aircraft car riers in a naval task force that had made its way undetected to a posi tion 240 miles north of Oahu. The surprise was complete as 24 torpedo planes and dive bombers in the first wave swept across the island from the north. In less than two hours, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was dev astated with 18 major warships ei ther sunk or seriously damaged. Among them was the 608-foot battleship Arizona, which was hit just forward of the bridge by a bomb that penetrated several decks before exploding in a fuel storage area. Fire quickly spread to the powder magazines and, 15 minutes after the attack began, the Arizona exploded. It sank in less than nine minutes. Of about 1,500 sailors and Ma rines aboard the Arizona that morn ing, 1,177 were killed. More than 1,000 men remain entombed in the ship. A memorial built in 1962 spans the encrusted hulk of the dread nought, from which oil still seeps to cast a rainbow-like sheen on the har bor. At one end of the 184-foot-long memorial is a white marble wall on which the names of the sailors and marines killed aboard the Arizona are engraved. Israeli troops fire on Palestinian protesters BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian youth Sun day as protesters pelted soldiers with rocks in a dozen towns and refugee camps, military and Palestinian sources said. The clashes, marking the fourth day of violent unrest, marred Christmas preparations at Manger Square in Bethlehem, where soldiers fired into the air to disperse a hand ful of Palestinian protesters. Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian youths since Thursday. Violence spread Sunday to four Israeli universities, where Jewish and Arab students protested in soli darity with Palestinans of the occu pied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The largest protest was at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, where soldiers Fly to Breckenridge and Ski! m CLUB $445 Price Includes: * 4 day summit pass * races * and more! parties condo Come by the Ski Club Cublice, Room 208 Pavilllon to sign upl Hurryll Also, come to our meeting Room 301 Rudder Monday, December 8,7 pm used tear gas to quell the demonstra tion. Five Israeli buses were stoned in Jerusalem and the West Bank, with four Israeli passengers injured, the army said. Palestinan teen-agers blocked main roads with burning tires, threw stones and waved PLO flags in dem onstrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, home for 1.4 million Pal estinians and more than 50,000 Jew ish settlers. In the Gaza town of Khan Yunis, soldiers wounded a 19-year-old in the knee when they fired on dozens of Palestinian demonstrators, Pales tinian news reports said. The army said it could not confirm the reports. Palestinian journalists say the pro tests were triggered by fighting be tween Shiite Moslem and Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon. Palestinians I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ jj t T. is one of the most ► wicked, vicious heartless v. [ hoeixes ever foisted pT upon the minds of men. have blamed Israel for aiding the Shiites in south Lebanon. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s government faced a growing outcry from opposition legislators about the army’s handling of the protests. The Cabinet on Sunday endorsed the sol diers’ actions and vowed that the troops would keep using force to maintain order in the territories cap tured by Israel in 1967. The violence began Thursday with a protest at Bir Zeit Univeisity against army roadblocks on the ac cess road to the campus. Two stu dents were killed and more than 20 were wounded. On Friday, soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy at the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, the West Bank’s largest city. 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